What's Next Health: Randy Jirtle

Randy Jirtle is a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison McArdle Laboratory. Watch his conversation with RWJF's Nancy Barrand.

If our genomes are the hardware of a computer, epigenetics are the software that tells them how to work. This relationship is at the heart of Randy Jirtle’s work to understand the impact epigenetics has on human health and disease. Randy Jirtle is a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison McArdle Laboratory. Watch his conversation with RWJF's Nancy Barrand.

Randy Jirtle is a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison McArdle Laboratory. Watch his conversation with RWJF's Nancy Barrand.

If our genomes are the hardware of a computer, epigenetics are the software that tells them how to work. This relationship is at the heart of Randy Jirtle’s work to understand the impact epigenetics has on human health and disease.